"Abraham Gesner saved more whales than Greenpeace ever will"
Essay - How Capitalism Saved the Whales by James S. Robbins.
including photo of Gesner monument erected by the Government of Canada's Historic Sites and Monuments Board:www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/gesner.html

Gesner and Williams: the Canadians who launched the petroleum industry.

The Governor General and the 40-year frustrated search for a fortune in oil.

How Ottawa engineered a global uranium cartel.

Trade wars: 140 years of Canadian-American friction.

Riding the oil roller coaster. (June 18, 2008: the world oil price is more than $140
a barrel and some analysts predict it will climb to $200. In a National Post article that
day, I predicted a big drop in oil prices. Less than three months later, the price had fallen
more than 30%).